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What actually happened to 55 real petitions

Every record cites its source so you can read the original. Denials and appeal decisions are included and shown first, because they state the ground of failure in an adjudicator’s own words, which is the one thing an approvals-only collection can never tell you.

Read this first. This corpus is not a random sample and cannot be used to estimate approval rates. Law firms publish their wins, and self-petitioners who fail rarely post about it. 5 of 55 records here are denials; USCIS reported a 45% denial rate on decided petitions in FY2025. Use these records to understand why cases turn out as they do, never to estimate your odds.

Median citations
58

across the 22 records that report a figure

Approved with 0 citations
2

explicitly reported as zero, not merely unstated

Median days to decision
180

where the source reports a timeline

Distinct fields
51

from martial arts to radiation oncology

All · 55Denied · 5Had an RFE · 8Approved · 50Self-petitioned · 4

55 records